Not much going on

I'm sorry to say that there's just not a whole lot going on. The past few days have been spent sitting around, which at least is better than laying around. I was back at the doctor's again today for more blood tests which should give us an idea by next week with what I'm dealing with. I was able to go out a bit today after the doctor's appointment and walk a bit with Anne. As a precautionary measure (because all this pain may be a gout attack), I've cut myself off of beer, which is a cruel irony considering that I'm in Germany. The doctor thinks it may be gout, but she's also suspicious of my extremely high white blood cell count and thinks that this may be some delayed after effect of being exposed to some tick-borne pathogen. God knows that I've been the feast for many a hungry tick, so who knows, but personally I never considered it. We do have a couple of parties to go to this weekend, and we have our big party next weekend, so hopefully they can figure out whats wrong with me in time for some fun. Dad has informed me that he has become Katinka's new best friend, and also her new favorite chew toy. I guess since her little buddy(i.e. kitty brother) is spending most of his time hiding and pretending to be a ghost, she has no choice but to try to convince people to play with her by trying to bite their legs off. I guess she can get a little jealous too; she probably thought Dad was giving the neighbors some turkey and she thought she'd give Dad a little warning about cheating by biting him on the leg.
Anyway, I can tell you one thing, being a gimp sucks! I have managed to watch every video on YouTube in the past week which is a world record. Luckily we had broadband in Berlin while we were there, and we got it to work here in Hoyerswerda after we got back. The upside is that I am no longer dependent on CNN for hearing english. The downside is that most of the english I hear comes from videos of people setting their asses on fire. I'm also able to sit here in the living room and type on my own computer which has a wonderful American keyboard, sans of all that umlat and y mixed up with z nonsense.
I did manage to restring my guitar tonight which wasn't nearly as bad as I had anticipated. Now my guitar no longer sounds like I'm playing it through a sleeping bag, which is what happens when strings start to oxidize and go bad after a month of non-stop playing. Well, now since I'm just writing about stupid stuff I figure it's probably time to call it quits for tonight. Hopefully if everything goes well we'll have alot more interesting stuff to write about. If not, well, there's going to be alot of posts about different ways to say 'ow, that #&$*@)! hurts!' in German.